From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Batons? Was: RFC: C/C++ preprocessor macro support for GDB
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nphendwi6u.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C965435.9040302@cygnus.com>
Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> > I'm open to suggestions. If folks think it's too cutesy, I'll change
> > it to whatever they want.
>
> For the same situtation, bfd's map_over_sections uses ``obj''. GDB is
> similar, catch_exceptions has ``func, func_args'', ui_file_put has
> ``write, dest''. Objects are described has having ``state'' or
> ``context''.
Right, these are all pretty generic terms. We chose "baton" to denote
this specific pattern of a function pointer accompanied by an untyped
data pointer. The term is more valuable if you can see it and
conclude that this specific pattern is what's going on.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-18 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-16 22:23 Jim Blandy
2002-03-17 0:11 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-03-17 19:33 ` Jim Blandy
2002-03-17 4:46 ` Neil Booth
2002-03-17 20:35 ` Jim Blandy
2002-03-17 23:29 ` Neil Booth
2002-03-18 0:06 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-03-18 0:36 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-03-18 5:00 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-03-18 5:32 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-03-18 11:18 ` Jim Blandy
2002-03-18 12:09 ` Neil Booth
2002-03-18 10:45 ` Neil Booth
2002-03-18 11:45 ` Stan Shebs
2002-03-18 12:05 ` Neil Booth
2002-03-18 12:19 ` Stan Shebs
2002-03-18 15:45 ` Jim Blandy
2002-03-18 7:16 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-03-17 9:07 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-03-17 16:53 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-03-18 7:35 ` Batons? Was: " Andrew Cagney
2002-03-18 12:08 ` Jim Blandy
2002-03-18 12:55 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-03-18 15:49 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2002-03-18 7:39 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-03-19 13:16 ` Jim Blandy
2002-03-18 10:34 ` Neil Booth
2002-03-18 11:11 ` Neil Booth
2002-03-18 16:03 ` Jim Blandy
2002-03-18 17:42 ` Stan Shebs
2002-03-18 19:51 ` Jim Blandy
2002-03-18 23:23 ` Neil Booth
2002-03-18 20:33 ` Jim Blandy
2002-03-23 12:14 ` Andrew Cagney
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